Gaming Corner Review: Shiren the Wanderer

We're more familiar with the roguelike subgenre nowadays through entries in the "Mystery Dungeon" series such as the well-known Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games. Due to the Pokémon theme, it has somewhat helped to bring the Mystery Dungeon series to the masses. However, it's Shiren the Wanderer who leads by example in being Chunsoft's original core series. So its here, questing with Shiren and Koppa that the true Mystery Dungeon experience can be found. How good can a game that relies on being randomly generated ultimately be?